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- [S42] Letters and Papers of the Verney Family, John Bruce, (London: John Boyer Nichols and Sons, 1853), 58.
"The Verneys were in close intimacy with the Peckhams. Lady Peckham, sir Edmund's wife, was Anne, daughter of John Cheyne, of Cheshambois, in Buckinghamshire, a family often connected with the Verneys; and Robert Peckham, sir Edmund's eldest son, had married Mary, one of the daughters of Edmund lord Bray, a sister of lady Verney and of her brother. Such multiplied links of connection sufficiently account for Edmund Verney having been led to select Dorothy Peckham, a daughter of sir Edmund, as his wife. The prospects of the young couple were as fair and smiling could be desired; but that sad calamity, in those days of early marriages by no means uncommon, the death of the bride in her first child-bearing, buried all their flattering expectations in the tomb on the 23rd May, 1547. Dorothy Verney was laid to rest amongst the ruins of Bittlesden abbey, in Bucks, a suppressed house of Cistercians, which had been granted to her grandfather by Henry VIII."
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